Papers, 1981-2010.

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Papers, 1981-2010.

This collection consists of news clippings about Jane Smiley, an article she wrote for the New York Times, her Iowa State University personnel file, a list of her publications, and a copy of her curriculum vitae from the 1980s.

.21 linear feet (1 half-document box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8148766

Iowa State University, Parks Library

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Iowa State University. Dept. of English.

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Iowa State University

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On March 22, 1948, Iowa State College (University) sponsored a 90th anniversary celebration in honor of the founding of the college, which occurred on the same date in 1858 when the charter act establishing a state agricultural college became law. The celebration included a symposium, luncheon, departmental open houses, and a dinner. From the description of 90th anniversary collection, 1947-1948. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 54799482 In 1958, Iowa State Colle...

Smiley, Jane.

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Smiley joined the English faculty at Iowa State University in 1981 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1984, full professor in 1989 and distinguished professor in 1992. She left the University in 1997. Smiley is the author of several titles, including The Greenlanders (1988), which was the result of her Fulbright-Hays grant to study for a year in Iceland; A Thousand Acres (1991), an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear that won her 1992's Pulitzer Prize for fic...